Connection 1: Argument_68 While searching for connections between the book assigned to me and other books posted to this blog, your book was suggested to me after I refined my search results with keywords like 18th century and illustrations. After reading through your argument text, I wanted to take a closer look at the pictures…
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The first book I choose for this exercise is called “Lucidum Perspectivae Speculum” from the post “Greetings_67”. The reason being the similarities in physical characteristics. At first sight it seems that both books have the same dimensions. They are rather large in length and width. In terms of thickness, by taking a closer look one…
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I found some similarities in this text about the book “Architektura” by Gabriel Kramer to mine which is “V columnae” by Hans Blum. Similar to my assigned book, it is about the order of the five columns. It describes the appearance of the columns and the correct arrangement in the teaching of architecture. Doric, Classical…
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first comment to the post ’Argument76’ hi, i browsed through several posts and finally came across yours. after reading it, i took a quick look at your book. what you already tell in the post and i could also see for myself is that like my book “Theatrum machinarum molarium ” by Johann Matthias Beyer,…
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Comment on _28 The first book I found while searching for a similar book to Johann Jacob Schüblers book „Synopsis architecture cavils elective“ was the book „Architectura militaris“, written by Andreas Cellarius in 1645. Like Schüblers book it is also written in Old German. Also the font is very similar. The way the letters are…
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Comment on Greetings_34 Hello! The book that i analyzed is „Lo inganno de gl’occhi“ by Pietro Accolti. While browsing through the blog, your „Greetings“ post stood out to me, because of the geometric drawings that you photographed. That was also what I found most fascinating about my book. Also both books were written only 40…
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Comment 1: Greetings_93: Our books have many similarities in appearance, but also in content. Both books contain detailed hand drawings of a wide variety of columns. These hand drawings are also supplemented with technical information. In addition, your book also deals with the subject of entrances and their proportions. The books both have a leather…
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Comment on Argument_108 by Kaspar Wysser Your book and mine (The theory of perspective demonstrated) have quite a few noticeable similarities. For one, the author of my book (John Cowley) was also an accomplished mathematician and geologist. Secondly, we both noticed that our authors decided to write a lot of continues text in their books…
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Comment on Greetings – 92 This book caught my eye while browsing through the post because of its engravings. While this one contains a variety of examples of niches, mine serves as a tour guide of several different fountains of Rome. Many of those are very luxurious and rather big in size. Specially those who…
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I think the connection to the notebooks of leonardo da vinci is a really interesting one to be made,and one that works for my books as well. While Leonardo isn’t writing about himself explicitely in these texts,the nature of notebooks is one that inherently offers us some insight into the aouthor themself.It offers us insight…